Che Cuibersity of the South. 


AN ADDRESS, 


DELIVERED AT 


BEERSHEBA SPRINGS, TENN., 


AUGUST 19th AND 22d, 1859, 


AND ALSO, BY INVITATION OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TENX- 
NESSEE, AT THE CAPITOL, NASHVILLE, SEPT. 8th, 1859. 


BY 


WILLIAM GILES DIX. 


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BEERSHEBA SPRINGS, TENN. ) 


August 20th, 1859, 
W. G. DIX, Ese. | 


Siz: The undersigned respectfully request 
the favor.of you to deliver again the Address which you 
recently made on the University of the South, on such day of 
the ensuing week as may best suit your convenience, and also 
to furnish us with a copy of it for publication. 


Very Respectfully, 


J. B. Wittiams, G. Mason Grauam, 
W. M. Strong, H. Jounson, 

_W. OC. Sroovr, Jno. A. Douguerrty, 
Joun M. Bass, EK. D. Wuxeter, 
H. W. Connor, JR., T. T. Castteman, 
S. R. Cocxriz1z, Jas. H. WAKER, 
D. 8. Gooptrog, | M. Pitcuer, 
Jas. L. Goopion, © J. A. Ricnarpson, 
J. ARMFIELD, O. F. Hantey, 
O. J. Morean, Frank H. Ineram, 
Minor Kenner, R. W. Lew, 


BEERSHEBA SPRINGS, 
August 20th, 1859. 


To Gun, Granam, Gov. JOHNSON, and others: 

Gentlemen: Acknowledging the kind favor with which 
my Address has been heard, I comply with your joint request, 
in the hope that other friends of the University of the South 
may urge its claims upon public consideration and support, 
with a power more worthy than mine, of the magnitude of the 
enterprise, though none can have a more earnest desire for its 


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complete fulfilment. May the Institution, which, for compre- 
hensiveness of design, stands foremost in our history, be 
sustained by the same large judgment and patriotic hopes which 
have inspired its projectors. 

Very respectfully and sincerely, 


Yours, 


WILLIAM G. DIX. 


At a regular meeting of the Historical Society of Tennessee, 
held in the Society’s Room, in the State Capitol, on Tuesday, 
6th of September, the following resolution was offered and 
unanimously adopted, to wit: 

“« Resolved, That W. G. Dix Esq. be invited to repeat, on 
Thursday evening next, before this Society and the citizens of 
Nashville, ‘his lecture on the University of the South, recently 

delivered at Beersheba Springs.” 
_ The Rey. Dr. Quintard was appointed to extend the invita- 
tion to Mr. Dix, and request his acceptance of it.” 

A true copy from the minutes of the Society. 

(Signed) 
| A. NELSON, 
Ree. Secretary Historical Society of Tennessee. 


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ADDRESS. 


The South, often, no doubt, unjustly regarded as being back- 
ward in the cause of education and of intellectual refinement, has 
projected, and is now boldly and triumphantly maturing, the 
grandest scheme of education, yet shown in the annals of the 
new world. All who desire to see the minds and souls of men 
lifted to that height which they can reach; all who would have 
American communities informed throughout with the spirit and 
the appreciation of the noblest culture; all who would gladly see 
the tides of demoralizing influences restrained by the strong 
bulwarks of Christian education, will hail with joy the promise 
of that great work, te establishment of the University of the 
South; and they will rejoice yet more, when this great enter- 
prize, undertaken in religious faith and fear, shall be brought 
to a successful consummation. May God bless the University of 
the South, and inspire all its friends with new ardor and vigor. 

The proceedings of the Board of Trustees of this Institution, 
recently assembled here, were marked by the same earnest, yet 
calm deliberation, which has distinguished every step of this 
great undertaking. The States represented in this vast work, 
are Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas. 

The progress has been sure and rapid. It is but three years 
since a circular letter, proposing and unfolding the design of a 
comprehensive institution, was addressed by the Bishop of Lou- 
isiana to distinguished citizens, clerical and lay, of the .ten 
States above named. The response was immediate and cordial. 
At the next annual Conventien ef each Diocese, Trustees were 


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chosen to meet and carry through the design, without a prece- 
dent, but none the less momentous and reasonable, of a consoli- 
dated University. The place for the first assembly of the 
Trustees, was Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, 
a place most fitting, for there,in one of the most majestic 
horizons in America, can be seen lands of five of the ten States 
included in the vast area represented in the work. ‘The time 
was fitting, the 4th of July, 1857, a day sacred to patriotic 
associations, and one most appropriate for ushering to public 
confidence and regard a labor so truly patriotic, as to found a 
University on the sanctions of religious faith; a day most be- 
coming to show to the world a profound conviction of the truth, 
that political liberty, unsustained by Christian culture, is as 
brief and baleful as a meteor’s glare. 

The first thing to. be done was to select a site. The whole 
subject was submitted to the severest scrutiny. The friends of 
every place suggested were allowed not only a fair hearing, but 
an ardent urging of its claims. Competent men were appoint- 
ed to examine carefully all the sites presented for decision. A 
mass of information was collected, most valuable in itself, and 
of vast use in making the final choice. Friends. of the valley 
and of the mountain, of the cultivated city and of the uncleared 
plain, argued, each, earnestly but courteously, for his favorite 
spot. The place selected as having the most advantages, as 
regards central position, ease of access, health, numerous un- 
failing springs, abundance and variety of material for building, 
grandeur of scenery and the far off future was that portion, now 
called *Sewanee, of the Cumberland Mountain, the summit of 


*The term Sewanee is of Indian origin. It appears that a tribe, having crossed the Southern 
Mississippi from west to east, occupied successively lands bordering on the gulf of Mexico, as 
far east as Georgia and Florida, and gave their name to a river in each of these States. Thence 
migrating northward, they reached the grand table-land of the western range of the Apalachian 
chain, to which they gave their name Sewanee. This range is now called Cumberland. The 
rivér also,now known as the Cumberland river, these Indians called Sewanee. This is the same 
tribe, which going farther north, at last settled in the northwest, and has been known as the 
Shawnees. 

An exploring party from Virginia, in 1748, gave to the mountain and river the name of 
Cumberland, in honor of the Duke of Cumberland. 

Mr. Putnam, in his valuable * History of Middle Tennessee,” says that these Indians affixed 
their name to some natural feature of the country which they traversed: as “Savanna, Savanne- 
has, Sawana, Sewane and the like.” 

The term Sewanee, most happily restored, is now given to that portion of the Cumberland 
table-land which comprises-the ten thousand. acres granted to the University. 


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which, instead of being steep, rugged peaks, is, for the most. 
part, a broad, fertile, gently undulating table-land, from fifteen 
to forty miles wide, and crossing the State of Tennessee, This 
place thus affords all the convenience of the valley and all the 
invigoration of the mountain. ‘The final choice.was acquiesced 
in by those who had preferred a different selection, with a spirit 
of christian nobleness and magnanimity, which, while adding 
honer to those whom it inspired, is itself not the least hopeful 
augury of success for the work. All have joined heartily in 
the labors to be done. One aim, one hope has animated all 
hearts, and nerved all hands. 

At the recent meeting of the Board at this place, it was 
evident, that all concerned felt that the enterprize was too great, 
too comprehensive, too far-reaching, to be made the subject of 
spasmodic excitement. The whole action of the convention 
was considerate, firm, vigorous, such as became the men who 
composed it, and the object which they came together to serve. 
Every motion was carefully weighed, and decided by force of 
character and truth. The idea of establishing a great Univer- 
sity by the combined action of honorable and liberal men, in 
ten States of the Union, was seen to be no exhalation of wild 
enthusiasm, but a design as practical and. substantial, as it is 
vast and commanding. Its very magnitude is its surest sign of 
success. Its conception bears that impress of grandeur, which, 
while it represses puerile display and fantastic emotion, yet 
calls forth sublime energies, and nerves them for firm, decided 
victory. 

So disastrous have been the failures of many schemes of 
education, begun too soon, or with means too small, that the 
projectors of the University of the South wisely determined not 
to break ground for the buildings, until the preliminary capital 
of half a million of dollars should be subscribed and secured. 
To some, this resolution would seem to have palsied the enter- 
prize. The result has shown that the men who so resolved, 
knew with whom they had to do. From the report of the com- 
mittee it appeared that two thixds of this sum had been raised, 


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and that the greater part of the remaining third had been 
pledged by reliable parties. Now, only a few days after the 
meeting of the Trustees, so much has been added to the sum 
already subscribed, that the whole amount may be regarded as 
secured. The confidence of men of business, accustomed to 
consider investments in all their bearings, has been gained. A 
bold aim, clearly announced, has challenged respect and found 
support. A timid policy would have won but half the day. 

The greater portion of this sum has been subscribed by citi- 
zens of Louisiana, that being the State where application was 
first made. Several gentlemen, indeed, of other States, with- 
out waiting to be called upon, have given largely, of their own 
accord, to the enterprize; but Louisiana has been canvassed, 
not entirely, but in part only, and the result is seen in more 
than four hundred thousand dollars subscribed by citizens of 
that State. Citizens of other States represented in the move- 
ment stand ready to do their part faithfully and well; but so 
short has been the time, and so much has been requisite to do, 
that subscriptions may be made understandingly, that a part 
only of one of the ten mines has been wrought; and, there is 
the result. The amount, without which, it was determined not 
to begin operations, has, virtually, been raised. It is but three 
years ago that this great scheme, lying in the domain of learn- 
ing, viva not in that of commerce and manufactures, was 
broached to the public. Who, after this, will accuse the South 
of apathy and indifference in a great and good work? What 
part of the country, nay, what part of the world, would have 
come up more promptly to the mark? All honor to Louisiana 
for her noble example; all honor to the other States, that are 
eager to follow it, and which would gladly have begun the 
work, had apelicaten been made. 

The Trustees, though unwavering in their purpose to do noth- 
ing which boule be considered as practically organizing the 
University, until half a million of dollars should be secured, 
have yet busily gathered, from various sources, both in America 
and in Europe, the results of Universities, as regards organiza- 


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tion, discipline and courses of instruction, so that, at the ear- 
liest possible time, they may erect buildings, and place the In- 
stitution in working order. The Trustees have determined not 
to found the University on mere theories, however plausible. 
They will compare faithfully the practical working of dif- 
ferent systems, both on this continent and in Europe, and make 
that digest of them, for their use, which in their deliberate judg- 
ment, shall seem most suited to the objects proposed, the state 
of society, the spirit of the age. A committee has in hand this 
very work. Institutions or friends of education, in this coun- 
try and in Europe, have answered applications for information 
with cordial zeal. The Government of the United States has 
rendered ready facilities for obtaining foreign documents of 
great value. Governments, Institutions, individuals, have 
given services, worthy of themselves and of the cause. No 
higher praise could be awarded. By this manly and candid 
course, the Trustees have shown their wish to found the Univer- 
sity upon the basis of tried wisdom and real experience, and 
also their entire willingness, that the whole world should know 
what they aim todo. By a Southern University they mean an 
Institution, which, built on Southern ground, and by Southern 
resources, shall vindicate the intelligence and enterprise, and 
illustrate the duty of the South, while.discarding everything 
which can deprive it of a national character and usefulness. 

In short, it is explicitly said, that “it is the purpose of the 
‘founders of this Institution, to establish an intellectual cen- 
tre, at which shall be concentrated all the means and applian- 
‘ces, whether of libraries or of living minds, to impart in- 
* struction in all departments of human learning, and to cover 
*‘ the whole area of attainable knowledge. So that it will be 
‘unnecessary for the youth of the nation, to be transported be- 
‘¢ yond seas, in pursuit of educational resources and facilities ; 
‘‘ but, they shall find the treasures of the old world and the 
‘“‘ new collated, and offered in the richest profusion, at their 
‘© own doors.” . 

The necessity and importance of such a design are too plain 


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and urgent to be denied, and demand the support of all reflect- 
ing men. The enterprise, the intelligence, the duty of the South 
form a threefold cord, which cannot be quickly or easily broken. 
To what better use can this cable of combined strength be put, 
than to hold fast the ark of safety for sound learning, 
social order, civil justice, Christian truth? Such an ark of 
safety is a University, amply endowed, heartily sustained, ably 
administered. 

Has not the South sent to the councils of the States and of 
the Nation men of high endowments as scholars and as states- 
men? Will not the South seek to continue and even to make 
stronger, deeper, higher, broader, this intellectual force? Can 
she find so good a way to do it, as to found a consolidated Uni- 
versity, which shall gather to its classic shades the best minds, 
and fit them, by courses of vigorous, varied, thorough learning, 
in all departments of Science and of Letters, for the arduous, 
yet honorable labors of the statesman-scholar? The whole 
country needs a high order of statesmen. The South needs 
them. If, as Americans, we do not strive to educate thoroughly 
the men whom we wish to represent us, at home and abroad; if 
we let noisy politicians wear the civic crowns which belong to 
the brows of accomplished statesmen; if we place in power 
men, who have no comprehensive views of duty, but those 
only, who have learned to play over and over again, like hand- 
organs, those tunes that catch ears and catch votes, but add dis- 
cord only to those majestic harmonies that come down to us, 
through “‘the corridors of time,” from the early councils of the 
nation ; if we are willing to be represented abroad by men who 
are not, in character and ability gentlemen, patriots, men equal 
to their work; then let us build no more Colleges. Let those 
already established fall into decay; let Democracy own sadly 
her defeat; let the world point the finger of scorn to the land 
of sublime experiments and woful failures. Will the South be 
content with her share of this reproach? Will she fold her 
arms and say nothing, do nothing, to avert this catastrophe, to 
avoid those civic terrors which loom up with gigantic gloom in 


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the future? No;—shewill not. A million voices will thunder 
No. A million hands will be ready to build the fortresses that 
shall defend America from such a fate. Build, then, your Uni- 
versity; build it on the solid rock. Build it on this broad-topped 
mountain. Here are no quicksands to draw down to destruc- 
tion the unlucky feet placed upon them. -No levees are need- 
ed here, to keep off the flood. Look at yonder bluffs that 
show their gray faces among the forests that skirt the sides of 
the opposite ridge. They look as if ten thousand artilleries 
could not shake them. Of such rocky foundations are these 
hills, though beautiful plains adorn their broad summits. Let 
the University be a solid rock, that shall stand unshaken, if the 
blast must come; and, when the rage of the winds is over, and 
the floods have ceased; and the terrible blackness of the sky has 
yielded to the serenity of Heaven’s unclouded blue; may the 
towers of the University be seen, rising high in the air, not a 
stone displaced, not a crevice made; but, full, perfect, beautiful 
as Grecian Art, sublime as the citadel of God. 

These are no vain apprehensions. Thetime is coming; it 
may be very near, when all the intellectual forces of America 
will be needed, when they will be strained to the utmost tension, 
to defend American honor and to secure American institutions. 
No part of the land will need them more than the South. Let 
the wise ponder, and bestow their zeal and gifts, if in truth, those 
can be called gifts, which do most good to the givers. Your 
University comes not to your doors, to solicit your charity. 
She comes bravely to ask, if you are willing, by endowing her, 
to endow and defend yourselves. 

This University is to be governed, according to the Charter 
of Incorporation, by the Episcopal Church, as represented in 
the ten States joined in its establishment. . To what better 
hands could this task be committed, than to that Communion, 
which has stood firm, among many unhappy divisions, and 
whose influence, from the beginning, has been onthe side of 
comprehensive culture and social stability? This steadfastness 
has not been more warmly claimed, thanit has been magnani- 


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mously acknowledged. Aside from the Church of God, no in- 
stitution is more truly and gloriously conservative, than a 
Christian University. As many institutions of learning, 
throughout the country, of all grades, from schools to colleges, 
though directed by various religious communities, yet are open 
freely to all, who are willing, while retaining their individual 
convictions, to respect the established order and discipline ; so 
will the University of the South dispense gladly her best and 
highest advantages to all, of whatever religious faith, who will 
receive them in the same spirit inwhich they willbe granted,— 
in the spirit of enlightened conciliation and candor. Yet, it is 
very evident, that the Trustees, in proclaiming their intention 
to give to the Institution all the power which the means at their 
disposal will allow, to afford the highest and broadest mental 
culture, and while determining to recognize throughout the 
great facts of Christianity ;—that they are not only true to them- 
selves, but to the communities, which they represent, which 
demand alike that the best instruction shall be given, and that it 
shall be sanctioned by Christian Truth. 

I am most happy to be able to state, as the result of some ob- 
servation and inquiry in the South, that men of eminence and 
ability, of various religious belief, are agreed in this position, 
that education and Christian instruction should go together. I 
have found men cordially sustaining Institutions, conducted 
under the auspices of communions differing, in organization, 
from theirs, yet bearing boldly the broad shield of the Faith, in 
which substantially they all agree, and sustaining the banner, 
on which are portrayed the holy symbols of the Truth, which 
touches their hearts with the same peace and joy, and exalts 
them with the same immortal hopes. Experience has decided 
the question too plainly to require its discussion, that attempts 
to strike out Religion from University seta Sees have been 
most abject, in the point of principle, and most deplorable, in 
the point of success. A School, a College, a University, to be 
successful, in the best sense, must be under the plain and direct 
control of some definite, recognized, Christian order. Christian 


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men, of whatever persuasion, look ‘with most reasonable dis- 
trust upon any scheme of intellectual culture, built upon the 
liberal basis, so called, of excluding, the direct. recognition of 
the Gospel of Christ. Mr. Webster’s argument, in the case of 
the Girard College, showing how unwise it is, on all possible 
grounds, to found a College, without Christianity as the corner 
stone, has never been assailed with success. It stands impreg- 
nable, now and forever. In the Girard College itself, which 
was intended to be independent of Christian men and Christian 
truth, it. has been requisite that Christian men should teach 
Christian truth, as the only sure foundation of morals. The 
mad leaders of the French Revolution voted God out of the 
Universe; but soon, terrified by the results of taking from the 
minds of men the idea of responsibility to a higher Power, 
they eagerly voted him back to his everlasting throne. The 
time has gone by, when, in a Christian land, learning will be 
severed from religious faith. The friends of the University of 
the South invoke the Great Teacher, now glorified, to look upon 
their labors with the same benignity, with which, on earth, he 
taught his disciples; and, though earnestly wishing te do 
faithfully their own work, they invoke the sympathy of the 
Church of the Living God throughout the world. 

The establishment of a great University is truly a worthy 
subject of world-wide congratulation. The South can do noth- 
ing more becoming a high and noble ambition, to secure the ap- 
proval of all men of right minds everywhere, than by founding 
this University so firmly, that no tempest can shake it. Here, 
on this mountain plain, where half a century ago, was heard 
the war-whoop of savage conflict, let there be heard the sublime 
instructions of ‘‘star-eyed Science.” From this height, let the 
eye of the Astronomer follow, in all their mazes, the suns and 
worlds that glitter in the abyss of night; and, as the glories of 
immeasurable space expand before his vision, may his soul be 
lifted, on the wings of holy reverence and fear, to the great 
throne of uncreated light, and tremble asit looks. Here, may 
“divine philosophy” discourse her wisdom more charming than 


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‘“Apollo’s Inte,” until He, Incarnate Truth, shall fix his 
image on the heart forever. Here, let the Chemist search into 
the mysteries of the etherial principles of things, and reveal to 
men their marvellous powers and affinities, until all the ele- 
ments shall seem achoir of angels; until Air shall seem to 
breathe everywhere the name of God, and Fire, flaming up- 
ward, to point to Him, who dwells on high, and Water alike in 
the ocean and in the brook, shall seem to sound His praise, and 
Earth to sing his glory, as she spins her starry way around the 
central Sun. Here, let the Geologist study the formation of the 
world, search the “‘rock-ribbed” mountains, and find in their 
diversities of structure and position, wonders passing thought, 
until the simple hammer, with which he breaks the rock be- 
neath his foot, shall show mysteries as stupendous as the teles- 
cope, that points out to view the star, whose rapid light is yet 
thousands of years on its etherial road, and, until the fossil 
shells and tracery of leaves daguereotyped on ancient rocks, 
shall seem to be called forth from their depths of earth, where 
they have lain for ages after ages, to testify to creative gran- 
deur, while the strong foundations of the earth shall repeat the 
testimony to “‘reason’s ear” in everlasting echoes. Here, let 
the wisdom, the eloquence, the poetry of antiquity, and of “‘the 
ages all along” inspire young hearts anew, until they shall be 
drawn gently to hear His words serene, sublime, who spoke as 
never man had spoken, yes, who spoke, as never poet sung. 
Here may the holy strains, which once mingled with the mur- 
murings of Siloah’s brook, lead heavenward the aspirations of 
youth. Those strains—how widely have they traversed the 
world! The seas that surround the “‘fast anchored isle” of Eng- 
fand make a sublime chorus to their gentle melody. They have 
crossed the ocean, until the waves that dash upon the Atlantic 
coast, and those which roll through ‘‘the golden gate of Cali- 
fornia,” mingle with their heavenly music. One of our poets, 
in his grand hymn to death, has spoken of the land, 


“Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no gound 
Save his own dashing;” 


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yet now, even the wild Oregon, as he rushes to the sea, must 
mingle the noise of his waves with the sound of those same 
sublime strains, to which the King of Jerusalem, far away and 
long ago, tuned his holy harp. 

Thus, the University of the South will consecrate science, 
literature and all that she shall teach, to guide men honorably 
through life, with that higher wisdom that shall guide aright those 
‘“‘thoughts that wander through eternity.” Will Southern men, 
whatever may be their political or religious preferences, hesi- 
tate to uphold the hands which are striving in a work so neces- 
sary, so valuable, so glorious? Will they not eagerly surrender 
all differences, and sustain those Christian patriots, who have 
been the first to see, and the first to plan, and if God will bless, 
and men will aid, will be the first to execute, the only grand de- 
sign of the kind, which can be compared with the gigantic 
efforts of the old world to found enduring institutions of 
learning ¢ 

This great work is not completed: it has been nobly begun, 
but, the weight of toil is yet to come. How many colleges, 
commenced with fair prospects of success, have failed, because 
their friends, too ardent, believed the work to be sure, when it 
was not half done! Let not the University of the South be 
added to this mournful list. The Trustees have, indeed, guard- 
ed against failure, as far as possible. They have declared, that 
to place the \ University of the South upon a sure basis, and to 
make it what it ought to be, as an exponent of Southern intelli- 
gence, social and religious culture, they need. three millions. of 
dollars. A large sum this seems in itself; but, it is not large, 
considering the resources from which it is to be drawn, and the 
purpose to which it is to be applied. .A community, whose an- 
nual income is more than one hundred and fifty millions of 
dollars, can certainly afford to endow the University of the 
South with a permanent capital of three millions. What Insti- 
tution is this capital to endow? Not one, certainly, which will 
take away from the value of the resources, which will supply 
its wants. Intellectual power enriches, as well as strengthens: 

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and adorns human society. But, the Institution has a value 
far higher, one which figures cannot measure. Tasier it is to 
compute the value of the air we breathe, than to define the 
worth of broad, refined, consecrated mental culture. Hasier it 
is to measure exactly the light of all the stars in space, than 
that intellectual light, which will endure, when stars shall for- 
get to shine. Express by algebraic symbols the value of a 
single human soul; then will you be ready to show, in the 
terms of an equation, the worth of a great, comprehensive 
University, a central Sun, whose light and heat shall cause the 
dormant, eternal energies of the spirit to spring forth, and to 
bear perennial fruit. 

Consider a University as a bulwark of civilization. The 
sums spent to endow it with vigorous activity are too small to 
be regarded, in comparison with its varied, comprehensive uses. 
When tribes of wild barbarians trampled on empires, as the 
laborers of the vineyard trample on grapes in the wine-press, 
and broke in pieces thrones, sceptres and jewelled crowns, as 
children destroy the playthings of an hour, Christian schools of 
learning stood; and their disciples taught to the savage hosts 
the alphabet of learning, human and divine, until the rude 
warriors knelt in homage to that faith, in whose behalf those 
structures had been reared, which saved civilization, when cas- 
tles and mail-clad armies failed. 

What sums are expended for naval and military service, for 
the general defence of the country against foreign foes, to sus- 
tain the national dignity at home and abroad! But, there are 
enemies, which no armies or navies can reach. ‘They are pop- 
ular ignorance, mental indolence, social demoralization. These 
are the insidious foes which consume slowly, but surely, the 
strongest ships which art can build, which undermine the 
mightiest fortresses which skill can make. These are the wily 
traitors, which guide the helm astray, till the flag surrenders 
to the sudden assault, which open the secret gate to the enemy, 
at night, till the sentinels are slain at their posts, and the gar- 
rison wakes but to yield. Protect, as firmly as you may, the 


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organized, material defences of the nation; protect, if you will, 
by acts of Congress, the rights of commerce, of agriculture, 
manufactures, of property and life; protect, by the strongest 
legal enactments, the rights of States, of citizens, of all the 
varied interests of the land; yetif you fail to protect intellec- 
tual civilization, the great protector of all that deserves and 
needs protection, your labor will be all in vain. Acts of Con- 
gress, of Parliament, of an Imperial Diet, decrees of Rulers, 
' whose will is law, cannot make nations great, if the people wil 
not use the means of greatness; but, an instructed, vigorous, 
Christian people can be great, whether rulers frown or favor. 
The most dangerous enemies are those within the camp. 
Against these a Christian University is atower of strength. It 
upholds social order against wild vagaries, intellectual refine- 
ment against brutal ignorance, Christian truth against infidelity. 
Strengthen such a fortress; and far less will be needed to sus- 
tain municipal and national means of defence. A thousand 
ships of the line are not so strong for truth and right, as a great 
University, founded on Christianity; not a thousand armies or 
navies can so well uphold, as she can, a nation’s fame, a nation’s 
mind, a nation’s loyalty to God andman. The ‘wooden walls” 
of England have not availed so much to make her strong, and 
to keep her so, as the stone fortresses of Oxford and Cambridge. 
May this University be the Oxford of America. May her 
fame and her power be as great and as good for a thousand years 
to come, as Oxford has been for a thousand years past, since 
Alfred the Great, the glory of Saxon England, laid the humble 
foundation, on which has been reared by successive generations, 
by bounties royal and popular, a superstructure so splendid and 
powerful. The lights which glitter on the towers of halls de- 
voted to learning are the last to go out in a nation’s gloom. 
Political ascendancy may fail; but, the light of science may 
yet spread radiance around, and secure the respect of nations. 
Philosophy in all its branches, Poetry and Rhetoric, all the 
intellectual graces shone forth with lustre hardly dimmed, from 
Greece, long after her political pre-eminence had gone forever; 


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and Grecian literature itself, the glorious result of the schools 
of Athens, shall last, until the globe itself shall melt. Turn to 
Italy: whether she has ruled the world, or the world has ruled 
her, or fought to determine who should rule; Italy has yet sent 
from her schools and universities for ages an influence over all 
the nations, that cannot die. The farthest east and the farthest 
west have thrilled to the chords of Italian genius. When the 
sceptre of universal dominion was torn from her grasp, all the 
Graces and the Muses gathered in a consoling group, and placed 
upon the brow of Italy the diadem of intellectual beauty ; and 
there, it will ever glow. In all the changes of her career, 
Italy has won laurels ever green. In her days of power, Italy 
has shone forth like the Sun, in his meridian glory. In her 
days of sorrow, Italy has beamed like the Sun, when he sends 
his rays abroad through the tearful mists of coming eve, and 
spreads a soft, golden halo over all the scene. As the crushed 
flower sends forth the sweetest fragrance, so Italy, trampled be- 
neath the feet of power, has sent forth strains of such patriotic 
tenderness, as will move all hearts forever. In her ascendency, 
intellectual power was the chief splendor of Italy; in her de- 
cline, intellectual grace has dignified her sorrow. Nations far 
larger on the map of the world than Italy now is, may occupy a 
much smaller space than hers in the 4ntellectual history of the 
world, if the truth be not recognized, that ssi glory is the 
highest that men or nations can win. 

Look at Germany having, but neglecting to use the materials 
of a vast, consolidated, powerful empire; the very heart of 
Kurope dissevered, and its pieces bound by a slender cord, when 
it should be entire, vigorous, great; yet, though politically so 
abject, as regards her vast and glorious capabilities, Germany 
has in her universities the gems of an imperial diadem of 
mind, to which the world pays eager homage. Look at Eng- 
land! Wherever her power goes, a school, a college, or a 
university rises, or all three rise together, to testify to her 
knowledge of the way to found and keep her sway. The truth 
is plain. A nation cannot be truly great, unless her intellectual 


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power is as strong as her political dominion; and, she may be 
truly great, when her political dominion is far weaker than her 
intellectual power. Political dominion is as transient as the 
insect, whose life is a day, compared with the dower of ages 
which belongs to intellectual power. 

The history of France is full of hard problems, intellectual, 
social, political. Yet this is plain, that the stupendous results 
of the French mind, in science, have been the fruits of per- 
vading, consolidated university culture. France is an organ- 
ized contradiction. Regarded as the most frivolous of civilized 
nations, the French have gone beyond most of their contempo- 
raries, in the pursuit of the exact sciences. They have taken 
equal delight in strict and searching analysis, and in combining 
theories and systems. From the wildest political frenzy France 
has emerged, to accept with joy severe dynastic authority. She 
shouts, in turn, to the cap of liberty and to the imperial crown. 
Even French despotism is half democratic, for it acknowledges 
and advances merit. The French character is a pendulum be- 
tween faith and doubt, order and anarchy, science and supersti- 
tion, freedom and absolutism. Yet, none will accuse the 
French of mental stagnation. This is the very worst of nation- 
al evils. War, pestilence or famine, cannot so surely destroy 
national life. Revolutions are better than popular imbecility. 
Barricades are better than boors. The reign of terror was the 
true heir of the reign of ignorance and folly. The suc- 
cession was legitimate; the reaction natural. France has 
waded deep in gulfs of atheistic anarchy and depravity. Again, 
she has taken high vantage-ground, and has magnani- 
mously, bravely, successfully defended the right. Her system 
of centralization may have many evils; but it has grown out of 
the French character. Right or wrong, it is essentially French. 
Whatever it has of good has been mainly the fruit of thorough 
discipline of the best minds. Whatever it has of evil has been 
owing not to the instruction given, but to its not being broad 
enough, and, especially, to its not being sufficiently guided, 
strenethened, elevated by Christian truth. Had France been 


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more thoroughly Christian, she would have been more constitu- 
tionally free. Had France honored God and his revelation, as 
she has honored her great names, she would have brought more 
honor to herself than her great names have brought, or could 
do, were they ten thousand more. The great want of France 
is reverence. Let America draw the lesson; for she too is 
wanting in reverence. She too has reason to consider how 
worthy she will prove, to keep her precious legacies. Political 
liberty cannot stand in the new world better than the old, if 
deprived of the two pillars which alone can uphold it, Christian 
instruction, Christian reverence. How strong are these pillars 
in America? Are they so strong, that there is no reason to 
fear that our beautiful fabric of conservative freedom may _ be- 
come a shapeless ruin? If they are so strong, it is well. If 
they are not so strong, which is wiser, to make them stronger, 
or to let them grow weaker and weaker, till the crash comes, 
the pillars fall and break the brightest hopes of man ? 

The men of the South have now a tangible, definite, well- 
ordered plan, on which to bestow their care and _ benefaction. 
Let America wear no longer the stigma of being the Paradise 
only of material civilization, the Mecca of Mammon, the land 
where the harp is tuned in vain to catch the ear, where spiritual 
beauty languishes and weeps. Size or wealth is not the essen- 
tial quality of national greatness. Fertile lands, fields white 
with cotton, or yellow with ripened grain, harbors crowded 
with ships, store-houses overflowing with goods from all lands, 
social comfort and luxury, stately dwellings, and costly garni- 
ture,—all these are blessings truly, yet, if a nation stops with 
securing these, she fails in her duty, and her shame will be as 
great as was her power to be glorious. 

May this beautiful mountain, with its summit of broad table- 
land, become the intellectual and social centre of the South, the 
seat of refinement, culture, elegance, of all the graces of life, 
overspread by that most refining, most elevating, most enduring 
of all good. influences, the beauty of holiness. Here may the 
sons of the South quench their mental thirst at the fountains of 


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knowledge, and draw water for the soul from the wells of sal- 
vation. This invigorating air, these pure springs, to revive ex- 
hausted energies, these magnificent prospects of fertile valleys 
and of wooded heights, these glorious mountain sunrises and 
sunsets, these splendors of the clouds and of the forests, these 
softly rolling surfaces, these combinations of scenery, sublime 
and picturesque, these broad acres, extending so high above the 
regions which fevers invade, with pale and haggard sorrows in 
their train, how well adapted are they all, to promote the vigor 
of the body and of the mind, to brace the physical energies for 
the intellectual conflict with the hard problem, or the hard page 
that yields only to the patient siege of the determined will; 
and, in the hour of victory, when the wallis scaled, and the 
fortress surrenders to the iron hand that grapples with difficul-. 
ty, as Jacob wrestled with the angel, how reviving it will be,. 
to look upon these graceful heights and secluded vales, and to 
walk this mouhtain-top, rejoicing over victory won on the field 
of hard, yet peaceful conflicts—victory which shall cause loving 
friends to shed no tears but those of joy—victory that shall en- 
circle the brow with laurels that wear no crimson stain. 

Those who enjoy the direct advantages of Universities reap 
but a small share of their entire harvest. Universities 
are but the crucibles, in which the treasures of past wis- 
dom, the experience of ages, the discoveries of science,. 
the graces of literature are transmuted into the pure gold,. 
which freshly stamped, supplies the mental currency of the 
world. <A great University is an Apostle of the intellec- 
tual dispensation; and, while he labors long and late, to in- 
struct his immediate disciples, it is the world at large which 
derives the main benefit of these hard and constant toils. How 
many revile Christianity, who yet enjoy, during every day of 
their lives, some of her innumerable benefits conferred upon 
mankind! as men, who breathe this air, so skilfully compound- 
ed for human life, and who enjoy the brightness of the sun,. 
and partake of the grains and fruits, which his heat has ripen- 
ed, will yet deny the Creator, and yet worship chance and fate... 


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So is it with Universities. ‘Thousands fail to appreciate them, 
who, nevertheless, are indebted to them, remotely or directly, 
for many of their social, civil, intellectual and religious benefits. 
The whole world is higher in the scale of civilization, for the 
labors of busy scholars, ages ago, trimming their midnight 
lamps. Many aman, who looks on Universities as merely 
aristocratic establishments, has rights as a citizen and respect 
as aman, which he never would have had, but for their wide, 
pervading influence. No institutions, of human design, are so 
wisely conservative, and so wisely progressive as Universities; 
for they restrain the rash renunciation of the wisdom of ages, 
and demand thorough reasons for changes, before they are made, 
Universities uphold the rights of citizens against tyranny, and 
the rights of lawful authority against faction. No despot ever 
sat easy on his throne; anarchy never brought complete ruin 
to a State, when Universities stood ready, boldly to defend the 
right and to resist the wrong. Against the usurpation of the 
ruler, or of the mob, Universities present a front equally firm 
and decisive. In Imperial Europe, Universities are the protec- 
tors of popular justice; in Republican America, they are the 
safeguards of order and law. ‘Tyrants flourish, when Univer- 
sities are weak. Demagogues lose power, when Universities 
are strong. 

When the advantages of Universities are set forth, it is com- 
mon to point to this, or to that great man, who never studied 
within the walls of a University; and, thus, the challenge is 
made, that such Institutions are not needed to promote the 
highest culture. This objection is unfair in two respects; in 
the first, because instances of minds, of the highest order, vin- 
dicating their ascendency, without the direct aid of Universi- 
ties, prove not that most minds devoted to intellectual pursuits, 
need not, for their just training, the severity of collegiate in- 
struction. In the second respect, the objection is unfair, be- 
cause minds, which have reached high position and honor, 
without the individual culture of the University, have been 
greatly indebted for that eminence to the labors of others, who 


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have acquired mental strength and knowledge in Academic 
halls. Besides, Universities have no stronger friends any- 
where, than those very men, who, having become eminent in 
mental pursuits, though without the culture of the University, 
yet have learned to acknowledge its power and use, and deplore 
their deprivation. 

The self-made man, as he is called by eminence, as if learn- 
ing were an amulet, that, even in the best University, could 
impart its power, without strength of will and severity of toil; 
the self-made man cannot advance a step beyond the rudi- 
ments of knowledge, without being guided by the works of 
University-scholars. Would he study ancient literature or 
modern, in the original languages? Howlittle can he do, with- 
out the books of University-scholars! The poets, the philoso- 
phers, the statesmen, the orators, the generals of antiquity were 
laborious disciples of the schools of Greece and Rome, the 
‘Universities of their day. A vast proportion of modern liter- 
ature has been written by University-scholars. If the self-made 
man will content himself with translations, he must depend 
upon University-scholars. Would he study Natural Science? 
That owes as much as Literature to Universities. The vast 
field of Natural Science has been ploughed, sown, tended, 
reaped, garnered by University-scholars. He knows not how 
to study accurately the bloom of the flower, the light of the 
star, the force of the lightning, the tides of the ocean, the pro- 
perties of the soil, the intangible currents that thrill through 
space, without being directed by the University-scholar. If he 
would follow Newton among the starry worlds, to apply the 
great laws of motion and attraction, he must follow a Univerity- 
scholar. If he would ponder with Bacon on the advancement 
of learning, and on the laws of induction, he must ponder with 
a University-scholar. In the chief departments of practical 
science, the University-scholar holds the wand of Prospero, to 
call forth the subtle forces of nature, and bid them do the will 
of man. 

The domain of imagination, as well as that of science, lies 


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within the realm of University-culture. The palace of ideal 
beauty, as well as the stronghold of practical knowledge, is 
guarded and filled by University-scholars. How many painters 
and sculptors, composers of immortal verse and of immortal 
music, have had their perceptions of the beautiful and the har- 
monious, nurtured and brought to perfection by the generous 
culture, and by the rich memories and traditions of the Col- 
lege! The greatest part of enduring English poetry has been 
produced by men, whose intellectual impulses were owing, in 
whole, or in part, to the developing culture of Universities. He 
who.spurns the College, and yet enjoys excursions in the realm 
of imagination, cannot revel with Spenser among the embower- 
ed shades of the Court of the Fairy Queen, without being 
guided by the glittering wand of the University-scholar. He 
cannot follow Milton through spiritual realms of awful gran- 
deur, without owning that a University-scholar has dared to 
‘‘soar above the Aonian Mount,” and in his sublime Epic, to 
‘justify the ways of God to man.’ Would he stand within 
view of the ruins of the Parthenon, or contemplate the solemn 
arches of the Coliseum, who will interpret for him the scene so 
well, as Byron, wayward in life, yet ever great, ever sublime, 
when true to the instincts of his University culture? 

But, he may point triumphantly to Shakspeare and say, ‘“‘he 
was no University-scholar.” Perhaps he was not; but, he was 
surrounded by them; he studied them; they were his friends; 
he obtained some of his best materials from the labors of Uni- 
versity-scholars. But, take a broader, more comprehensive 
view. How could Shakspeare, as a great intellectual develop- 
ment ever have been, but, for that accumulated force of ages of 
culture, directly furnished by cloisters of learning to those under 
their care, and by these to the world at large, which ‘brought 
about that mental condition of things, which made possible the 
expression of Shakspeare’s mind? Shakspeare was as truly 
the result, intellectually considered, of University-culture, as 
if he had spent all his years of manhood in the cloisters of Ox- 
ford. If not a graduate of one University, nevertheless, in a 


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high and noble sense, Shakspeare was a graduate of all the 
Universities of all preceding time. They all aided in preparing 
his sphere; they all aided in preparing him to fill it. The air 
which the great poet of human nature must breathe is that 
etherial beauty of the spirit, which is the bright exhalation of 
the broadest, deepest culture; and this never could be, but for 
long, long centuries of laborious thought upon material things, 
and upon the soul of man; and the retired cloisters of Univer- 
sities developed such thoughts, they were sanctuaries of the 
mind, in ages of strife; until the ripe intellectual harvest of 
centuries, ‘‘the bright, consummate flower’? whose roots lay 
far back, in the distant past, expanded in the glorious mind of 
Shakspeare. The great poet, though ‘‘ warbling his native 
wood-notes wild,” was a graduate of the vast University of 
ef History and Time. 

Shakspeare, indeed, poured forth myriads of ‘‘ thoughts that 
breathe, and words that ,burn;” but, centuries of reflection on 
man and nature, worlds visible and invisible, the inborn powers 
of the soul, the mysteries of time past, present and to come, the 
shadows of eternity ; all these ages were needed to develop that 
spiritual atmosphere, which thoughts can breathe, that etherial 
fuel of the sou] which words can burn. And he who utters 
them must feel how they can breathe and burn, or they will not 
so affect the minds of others. And this condition of things: 
was it not owing greatly to the culture of two thousand years— 
to gono further back—of the Universities of modern Europe, 
the schools of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the East? Yes, 
we will claim Shakspeare as a University-scholar. Nor will 
that name be denied to those, whether the recipients of diplo- 
mas or not, who have reached their intellectual heights by lad- 
ders of the mind, made and placed by the labors of sons of 
Universities. 

The instruction directly imparted is, then, no measure of the 
influence of a University. It is a fountain for the world. 
Streams flowing in far distant places may yet be traced back to 
the full and gushing spring. The University is the banyan- 


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tree of the intellectual forest, which spreads branches far and 
wide, from which descend other branches to the ground, that 
themselves take root, and grow, and thus extend the sheltering 
shade. A great Universiy is, in the highest and best sense, 
the most Democratic institution which man can build; for it 
alone is that sure basis of general intelligence, without which, 
Democratic structures of government rest on sand, liable to fall 
before the first political tornado. A great central University is 
a support to all other institutions of learning, great and small. 
It supplies thoroughly trained men for offices of instruction. 
All schools are raised in character by a University demanding 
high qualifications and supplying the means of high attain- 
ments. The more a community is educated, the more it desires 
to be educated. The desire of learning and the way of learn- 
ing grow each with the growth of the other. There is never a 
reason to fear that too much will be done for the human mind. 
All men become more comprehensive in thought from the pre- 
sence of a University. It is a momentous truth, that a Uni- 
versity is the centre of a circle with an infinite circumference. 
The ten States represented in the establishment of the Univer- 
sity of the South cannot confine its rays. They reach beyond 
space and time. They are as immortal as the soul. The build- 
ings may crumble to the dust; and, the antiquary of the future 
may strive in vain to find their trace; but the University, as a 
power, must live forever. Build, then, let me urge it, build, 
conscious that you build for eternity. 

The proposed University has a claim upon public support, 
independently of its province as a place of instruction. It can 
be the centre of a noble literature.» American literature has 
not kept pace with American advancement in the practical arts 
of life. Here, indeed, will be supplied the means of enlarged 
information, as regards all those studies which develop wisely 
the material resources of the land. The University will com- 
prehend, in its circle of studies, engineering, surveying, the 
application of Science to agriculture, mining, mechanics, man- 
ufuctures, commerce, political economy, and every kind of in- 


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struction, on which the most rigid utilitarian can insist, as of 
importance in a country like this, of resources of incalculable 
value, yet needing, for their true use and improvement, deep 
skill and wide knowledge. All departments of science, whether 
as modes of refined investigation, or as applications to human 
need and to the growth of the land, will here be cultivated. 
But, also, those studies which refine the soul, and crown all 

practical labors with the halo of intellectual grace, will here 
nerve ambition to excel in the noble fields of Christian litera- 

ture. This is one of the highest aims, as its accomplishment 
will be one of the highest victories of the University. ‘‘Man 
shall not live by bread alone,” says the inspired Word. The 
practical civilization of America, commendable as it is, cannot 
satisfy the demands of humanity and of the age. We need a 
profound, vigorous, Christian literature, worthy of the New 
World. Such we have not. Steam-engines have engrossed 
our time, to the exclusion of intellectual power. We have been 
far more eager to build railroads on the earth, than to trace 
upon our western sky a pathway. of living light, that shall il- 
lume the land for ages to come. Outward conveniences and 
splendors of life are not enough to found a nation’s glory. The 
fault is not of the South alone, but, of all America, that we 
have not made the foundation, which we should have made, for 
a substantial, noble literature. In America, public opinion, or 
hard necessity pushes men, who desire to devote themselves to 
letters, into politics, trade, or into some sphere of jostling life, 
in which, though conscientiously desirous to do their duty in 
the world, yet having no heart or aptitude for labors not in 
keeping with their higher aims, or consciousness of power, they 
succeed indifferently, and gain, often, cruel obloquy, when, if 
allowed to spend their strength in the severe toils of their chos- 
en sphere, they would be happier and more successful, and 
would do more good, because working in harmony with their 
aspirations and convictions of duty. Nothing is more practical 
than a sound literature. The wildest visionary is not he, who 
demands for literature due regard, but he who thinks that the 


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wants of man’s intellectual nature can be safely thrown out of 
tue accont, in considering claims tonational protection, or the 
evidence of national prosperity. 

A man in America needs the invincible nerve of Christopher 
Columbus, to resist the tide, that would drag him down from 
high resolves and lofty aims. . We pay homage to foreign wri- 
ters, as we do to foreign fashions, while we are apt to look with- 
out favor on those who deserve praise for nobleness of aim, if 
not for brilliancy of success. Some, who admire, as they ought, 
the literary productions of former times, and who bow, in most 
obsequious homage, before living authors from abroad, pierce 
with the arrows of sharp, bitter, unrelenting contumely, the: 
hearts of those, at their very side, who keep that same persis- 
tent loyalty to literature, which never has failed of admiration 
in America, provided only that it has been shown by Europeans, 
now or in ages past. Whatever sound literature we have in 
America has not been fostered and encouraged. It has had to 
fight its way, inch by inch, through difficulties terrible, almost 
overwhelming. It has had to run the gauntlet of scorn, dis- 
couragement, materialism. More than that; it has found ene- 
mies, where it should have found friends. Yes, even in Ameri- 
ca, where literature should be more kindly cherished, than any- 
where else in the world, many, who gaze withidolatrous venera- 
tion on the portraits of dead authors, endeavor to “kill with 
looks” the young, living scholar, whose trembling ambition it 
is, to add, it he can, a few worthy leaves to the precious lega- 
cies of time. Literature, in America, has felt the whip of scor- 
pions from the very hands, which should have held the laurel 
and the palm. The wonder is, that somuch has been done, of an 
enduring kind. This mountain glows with the dawn of a 
brighter day. The genius of true American glory has inspired 
the hearts of noble men in the South, to build substantial halls, 
where literature can find a refuge for her high, assiduous labors, 
from the driving storm of materialism; where, with strenuous, 
but delightful toil, she may weave hersplendid fabrics, of threads 
that never wear out, and color them with hues that never fade. 


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Coming ages will honor the South for this, her grandest bless- 
ing to mankind. Millions, in the future, when American lit- 
erature shall become, not a timid hope, but a grand fruition, 
will bless the memory of these benefactors of their country and 
of their time, and will keep it green forever. 

No enterprise, of an intellectual character, can succeed, but 
one commensurate alike with the wants to be supplied, with the 
obstructions to be resisted. Such, in design, is the University 
of the South. Itis right that the land of great rivers, of ma- 
jestic mountains, of millions of fertile acres, should sustain a 
University, as grand as the scale of nature. It is right that the 
South should prove to the whole country, and to the whole 
world, that her energies, devoted to the welfare of the minds 
of men, can be as powerful and as successful, as they have 
been, in drawing wealth from the land, and in covering the sea 
with the white wings of ships. May this enterprise vindicate 
forever the spirit, vigor and intelligence of the region which 
sustains it. Asa friend of Christian learning, I bid you God 
Speed. As a Northern man, as an American, I bid you God 
Speed. Lay the foundations of your structure deep and broad, 
and raise the towers high; and, on the highest, let the Cross, the 
symbol of divine compassion, greet the morning sun. Make 
avenues that shall wind over these gentle undulations, and lure 
the ‘feet of the thoughtful and the studious; but, also, may 
reverent feet follow that holy Guide, ‘‘whose ways are ways of 
pleasantness, and all whose paths are peace.” Let the varied 
hues of the forest and all the flowers of the field diversify the 
scene with blended stateliness and beauty; yet, forget not to 
plant the rose of Sharon and the Tree of Life. May the birds 
of Spring and of Summer chant daily, at morning and at even- 
ing, from their leafy oratories, their melodious orisons; yet, also, 
may the aspirations of many hearts be wafted upward by the 
celestial warblings of the bird of Paradise. Here, at this Uni- 
versity, on this beautiful mountain, may hosts of ingenuous 
youth, year after year, gather knowledge that shall prepare 
them to do faithfully, in the fear of God, life’s noble work ; may 


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they gain the best and brightest laurels, to which high culture 
can aspire; and, when life’s labors shall be over, may they be 
found worthy to win a good degree in that upper University, 
of all kindreds, nations and tribes, upon the Mount of God, 
receive those amaranthine honors which are to last, not for 
fleeting days or years, but for countless ages, and hold, as the 
title to everlasting bliss, that diploma, which bears the precious 
sign—manual of the Savior of mankind. May the morning 
and the evening hymn never fail. Though above the heights 
of Earth and Heaven stands the Throne of God; yet, ever 
should rise to the Supreme, from the mountains of Earth and 
from Mount Zion above, the holy chorus of praise 


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